His debut film Creature went with a whimper, but Pakistani TV actor Imran Abbas Khan chalks it up to being an experimental film and is looking ahead. While shooting for his TV show in Pakistan, Imran talks to us about his second film Jaanissar and his current relationship status.
How difficult or easy was it shoot for a period drama?
It was very difficult as the character was very different from whatever I have done so far. We were going back in history - the film is set in 1877 Lucknow - and I had to transform myself completely. I had to get the dialect, the body language and the psyche of the character right. I had to play the perfect English gentleman from royalty (he is brought up in the palace) for which I had to get my gait right. At the same time my Urdu had to be extremely good as I had to deliver important lines in poetry. I am a poet myself so that helped. It's a very diversified character.